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Three passengers on a recent SkyWest airlines flight from Chicago to Connecticut lost consciousness. The airline billed them for the improvements to their surroundings. It turned out later that all had  middle seats between two fat people. ... I was reading an obituary from my home area of Southern Indiana. There was an old guy who died who habitually asked to kiss women's hands.

SAP said its sales machine worked across the world as revenue in all regions was up by double digits. That analysis came during this week's earnings webcast as the German software giant released its earnings for the first quarter ended March 31. Total revenue was $3.86 billion, a rise of 30 percent from $2.98 billion in last year's corresponding period. While cloud bookings were up 120 percent, good old-fashioned maintenance revenue had 17-percent growth, coming in at $2.45 billion for the most recently ended quarterly, up from the prior year's $2.1 billion.

Results for NetSuite's first quarter ended March 31 apparently put CEO Zach Nelson in a good mood. It was so good, he barely trashed the competition. He passed on SAP's announcement of its first-quarter results this week and was very kind in mentioning a win at a major H-P division a company that uses SAP. Whatever the reason, revenue rose to $164.8 million for the most recently ended period, an increase of 34 percent from slightly less than $123 million a year earlier. The loss of $22.7 million was only $480,000 higher than in last year's corresponding quarter. On a GAAP basis, the company lost 14 cents for every dollar of revenue, down from 18 cents. Non-GAAP net income was $9 million, more than double $4.4 million a year earlier.